# Do you know who was President when you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653 "2011-08-22T14:33:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/121 "2011-08-23T18:40:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Nixon was president when I was born. Ooh ooh we’re presidential twinkies! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/122 "2011-08-23T20:09:34Z")
> [@Silophant](#): > > George Bush. Just knew it. How wouldn’t you? Well, from my own confusion and others in this thread, the key to needing to think about it seems to be being born just a few weeks after/before one president leaves office and another takes it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/123 "2011-08-23T20:48:36Z")
Eisenhower for me. Now, my still living grandmother, Roosevelt, as in Teddy. Grandma was born in 1904 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/124 "2011-08-23T21:29:51Z")
Nixon. Didn’t have to think more than three seconds. I do remember, a few years ago, being surprised that Nixon was president when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. It just doesn’t seem fair, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/125 "2011-08-23T21:46:59Z")
Yep – Jimmy Carter. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/126 "2011-08-24T03:24:01Z")
I know the US President (FDR) and the British Prime Minister (Churchill) and the USSR head of state (Stalin). Japan was Hirohito, Germany was Hitler, Italy was Mussolini, but I can’t tell you the answers for France of the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/127 "2011-08-24T07:45:20Z")
JFK. Aaannd _The Beverly Hillbillies_ had just debuted that week. And _My Favorite Geisha_ with Jack Lemmon was playing at the Will Rogers Theater in Chicago. The Cuban Missle Crisis was about to become BIG NEWS. And in England, Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric on _Doctor Who_ was born. The show itself would not debut until JFK was assassinated later. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/128 "2011-08-24T12:21:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Out of curiosity, are there any Americans who can tell, without looking it up, who was the Speaker of the House when they were born? I’m thinking probably less than one out of a hundred Americans know off the top of their head (I didn’t). I suspect less than one out of a hundred Americans know who the present Speaker is. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/129 "2011-08-24T13:25:15Z")
I’m embarrassed to admit that I only just realized, when I was born, Reagan hadn’t been elected yet. He’s the President Of My Childhood ©, so I’d never considered that before… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/130 "2011-08-24T16:02:25Z")
FDR but he was on his last legs when i was on my first. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/131 "2011-08-24T17:20:58Z")
Nixon ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/132 "2011-08-24T17:52:36Z")
Another Nixon baby. Had my parents been following doctors’ orders, however, I would’ve been a Ford baby, at the earliest. And I wouldn’t have been _me_, but that’s kinda metaphysical. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/133 "2011-08-24T20:03:45Z")
Truman. And I remember watching Eisenhower’s first inauguration on our B&W Zenith with a 12" round screen. (And Elizabeth II’s coronation in the same year.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653/134 "2011-08-24T20:08:39Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I had to think for half a second because Nixon was sworn in 4 days before I was born. You are one day older than me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-was-president-when-you-were-born/593653.md?page=6)